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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bundling "modern" extensions
From: sean@seancoates.com (Sean Coates)

> My reasoning is simple. The key for bundling extensions is to have
> them available for most hosting solutions. If a shared host provides
> support for mongodb, then he will most likely enable the mongodb
> extension in php, if he knows what he is doing. The same applies for
> all other non core critical features but more from an architecture
> point of view.

Please don't forget that it's possible to host your database apart from =
your main code. Mongolab[1], for example, offers MongoDB hosting, so =
shared hosts that have the MongoDB extension enabled could easily use =
their free tier on cheap hosting (at the cost of latency, of course). =
Couch.io[2] used to offer free trial/sandbox hosting of CouchDB, =
similarly (but there was no stable CouchDB extension last time I =
checked), but I'm not sure if Couchbase (to which couch.io now points) =
does.

The point is that you don't need to have the target service available on =
the PHP-hosting-machine in order to make use of the technology.

[1] https://mongolab.com/
[2] http://www.couchbase.com/

S